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Natural Fruit Cake recipe

One of Joshua's co-workers gave us the recipe for her natural fruit cake. I made some today and it's wonderful! :)

I am not really a huge fan of dried pineapple or dates, but I think the combination of flavors in this fruit cake is delicious! I haven't tried this recipe with different fruit and nut combinations, but I think that equivalent weights of various other nuts and fruits (walnuts, cranberries, blueberries, raisins, etc.) would work quite well. :)

Natural Fruit Cake recipe

It's sweet, but also very filling. Joshua and I both think it reminds us of a fruit and nut granola bar-type of treat.

This recipe is really easy to make. I used the food processor to chop the nuts and fruit, and Eliyahu helped me stir everything together. We ate two of the mini loaves and froze the other 4 for later or to give as gifts.

I did figure out that this recipe was rather pricey to make (almost $12 for 6 mini loaves!) so it won't be a regular treat at our house, but it's definitely worth making! :)

This was the first fruit cake I had ever made! Those of you who make fruit cake, what are your favorite ingredient combinations? :)

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2009-12-23 10:51.

I made David Lebovitz' this year

I have never liked fruitcake, but (like yours) his doesn't have the creepy red and green fruit or any alcohol, like traditional recipes do.
For fruit, I used dates, apricots and craisins, and for nuts, I used almonds and walnuts. It was so delicious, I might start making it weekly to eat as breakfast bars. Like you said, the recipe is expensive, but I cut it into small squares, so it went pretty far.
The recipe is here (http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2009/12/fruitcake_bar_recipe.html) and I can't recommend it highly enough!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2009-12-23 15:04.

here's my recipe - I've made

here's my recipe - I've made it two years in a row now for Christmas! AMAZING - the crystallized ginger is the key!!

1 cup dried apricots, chopped

²⁄3 cup dried peaches, chopped

¹⁄3 cup blueberries

1 ½ cups golden raisins

1 ½ cups Thompson raisins

1 ½ cups dried cherries, halved

½ cup sweet sherry

½ cup cherry whiskey

125g (½ cup) butter

½ cup dark brown sugar

3 eggs

1 Tbs dry instant coffee

¼ cup hot water

¼ cup fruit jam (e.g. mixed fruit)

1 cup all-purpose flour

¾ cup self-raising flour

1 Tbsp cocoa

1 tsp ground cinnamon

½ tsp ground all spice

½ tsp ground nutmeg

¹⁄3 cup crystallized ginger, chopped

²⁄3 cup mixed peel (or dried papaya and pineapple, chopped)

1 cup walnuts, chopped

1 cup pecans, chopped

Submitted by AIming4Simple on Mon, 2009-12-28 12:22.

My mom made fruitcake for our wedding!

Her recipe has dates, walnuts, and cherries (or dried cranberries). I love it! What is doesn't have is alcohol or citrus. I've never liked those kinds of fruitcake. I'm looking forward to trying the natural recipe you shared, Tammy. Thanks!

Submitted by Jules on Wed, 2009-12-30 16:24.

Thanks!

A friend of mine was looking for a recipe that didn't call for alcohol in it. (most if not all fruit cakes do)

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2010-02-08 21:18.

HELP PLEASE

I have been to almost 5 stores and cannot find the whole wheat pastry flour. The only thing anyone had was just Organic pasrty flour. Will this work? Should I mix in with it some whole wheat flour??? HELP I want to make this tommorrow!

Submitted by Tammy on Tue, 2010-02-09 01:12.
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Whole wheat pastry flour

You can use regular whole wheat flour instead of whole wheat pastry flour. I am sure that white flour (all-purpose or pastry flour) would also work, but since I have only used whole wheat, I am not sure if the measurement would be exactly the same; you may need an extra tablespoon of flour for the recipe if using a non-whole-wheat flour. :)

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 13:11.

Flour again

I found organic whole grain pasrty flour. Should I use this or just stick to the whole wheat flour? Thanks so much again! And please do not ever stop cooking Tammy.
I have been following your recipes for 2 weeks now and I actually have become quite fond of cooking! I am also doing your stuff peppers tonight!

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